The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

When you have snowflakes in the clouds in the sky and you have mountains, you get snow. That's how it works.

'The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.'

'Dank Dank' (Reflecting his inability to accept compliments for several years.)